Welcome to the Comic Vine Developer API Forum

Everyone at Comic Vine is pleased to announce the Comic Vine API. Using the API, we hope our users can find crazy new ways to use our data. If you're a developer, check out the API site and sign up for an API key.

This forum should be used for any questions regarding the API, including technical questions. If you're having trouble with something, post a question. I'll be frequenting regularly to answer any questions.

We're also planning on adding more data to the API in the near future. If you have a cool idea but can't find the data you need, please ask.

If someone's making a program or script that uses Comic Vine's data, they'll be able to use it. That's who it's intended for, but it could also be used by other people who just want to look at the data.

"What is this agian? I know it is developer stuff, but I need a little more info."

Imagine if you will if you could create a website, a webapplication on your own displaying information from the Comic Vine database. You can only READ the information. You can API as a bridge, I think. Your program is Manhattan and the Comic Vine is Brooklyn, the Cars would be information, and the API would be a One-Way-only Brooklyn Bridge.

Information can be your program "asks" comicvine's API for «Superman» and then it gets a list of all the issues Superman was into: Action Comics #1, Action Comics #2, Action Comics #3, Superman #1, Superman #2, and so on..... it this making any sense at all?

@Donovan Montgomery: The Comic Vine plug-in (not completely done yet) can be downloaded from the bitbucket (code) page at https://bitbucket.org/mabster/comicster/downloads . To use it, just copy it to <user>/Documents/Comicster and change your default catalog to Comic Vine under Tools menu. Then link your titles, then you can download issue, title, character, creator details and images from CV into your collection.

"What is this agian? I know it is developer stuff, but I need a little more info."

Imagine if you will if you could create a website, a webapplication on your own displaying information from the Comic Vine database. You can only READ the information. You can API as a bridge, I think. Your program is Manhattan and the Comic Vine is Brooklyn, the Cars would be information, and the API would be a One-Way-only Brooklyn Bridge. Information can be your program "asks" comicvine's API for «Superman» and then it gets a list of all the issues Superman was into: Action Comics #1, Action Comics #2, Action Comics #3, Superman #1, Superman #2, and so on..... it this making any sense at all?

I've been trying to use the api resource "issues", passing my apikey and the publish_year of 2012 and instead of getting a limited number of books, I get a result set somewhere in the 200,000 book range. I know that can't be right simple because the results shows older books than those published in 2012. Can tell me how to get the "newest" book listings? Here's what I have so far.

Second, what license information should I include on my application using the ComicVine API? My application is open-source (MIT license), and I mention ComicVine on every page (in the footer, and also on the "About" page), but I'd like to say "the data are a property of ComicVine", or something similar. What's the correct way to do it?